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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: aggression, nationalism, patriotism
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    Alan Jay Lerner
    “Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.”
    ― Alan Jay Lerner, "Camelot" Vocal Selection
    tags: inspirational
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads & Departamental Ditties and Ballads
    tags: military
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    James Jones
    “I write to reach eternity”
    ― James Jones
    tags: inspirational, writing
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    Robert Graves
    “To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to treat his children as slaves, if at the same time he treats his slaves with reasonable consideration.”
    ― Robert Graves, I, Claudius
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    Robert Graves
    “I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.”
    ― Robert Graves, I, Claudius
    tags: corruption, livia, morality, power, ruling
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    Peter De Vries
    “Write drunk; edit sober.”
    ― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben
    tags: misattributed-ernest-hemingway
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    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    ― Nicholas Klein
    tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: willful-ignorance
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

    [misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: beer, drinking, misquote
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    Richard Flanagan
    “He loved his family. But he was not proud of them. Their principal achievement was survival. It would take him a lifetime to appreciate what an achievement that was.”
    ― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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    Richard Flanagan
    “Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.”
    ― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
    tags: applause, vanity, virtue
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    Richard Flanagan
    “He thought of how the world organises its affairs so that civilisation every day commits crimes for which any individual would be imprisoned for life. And how people accept this either by ignoring it and calling it current affairs or politics or wars,”
    ― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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    Richard Flanagan
    “Men's lives are not progressions, as conventionally rendered in history paintings, nor are they a series of facts that may be enumerated & in their proper order understood. Rather they are a series of transformations, some immediate & shocking, some so slow as to be imperceptible, yet so complete & horrifying that at the end of his life a man may search his memory in vain for a moment of correspondence between his self in his dotage & him in his youth.”
    ― Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
    tags: ageing, change, growth, life
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    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: style
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    Gore Vidal
    “Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: politicians, speeches
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    Gore Vidal
    “No good deed goes unpunished”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be
    at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror,
    but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means.
    It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!”
    ― Gore Vidal, The Essential Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. ”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: politics
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    Gore Vidal
    “History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
    tags: 1962, 363, gossip, history, priscus, truth
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    Gore Vidal
    “Never offend an enemy in a small way.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
    34 likes



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